WSJ News Exclusive | Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says

The Energy Department joins the FBI in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory. Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided.

Source: WSJ News Exclusive | Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says

as article mentions, this is 2nd us agency to state this (1st is FBI, unsure of their level of confidence), although DoE is saying “low confidence”. of course, this is going on as us & china are having a bit of a tiff (china figeter buzzing warship with cnn aboard, just after china spy baloonn thingy, china likely to spuily arms to russia, is still buying russian oil at a nice discount, etc0.

seems too early to know, if we can ever know for certain.